Exhibitions

On until 26.6 2026

Studio Funk is a participant-driven art initiative that launched in 2024 with support from the Swedish Inheritance Fund. The initiative is aimed at and created in collaboration with people with cognitive and physical disabilities who are interested in art and social issues. On May 22, a closing seminar for Studio Funk was held at Tensta Konsthall. In preparation for the full-day event, we gathered documentation from the project—illustrations, publications, cultural posters, comics, and films—which was compiled into a documentary exhibition. The exhibition is now on view at the art hall for the remainder of June.

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Activities

Ongoing

Welcome to Photo lab in Tensta!

Are you between 15 and 19 years old and curious about art? Join a creative day camp exploring light, photography, and performance, led by artists Gazelle Kianoush and Carlos Martinez.

During four inspiring days in June, we’ll explore art in our surroundings—on building facades, in the subway, and in public squares. You’ll get to experiment with building your own cameras, take photos, and collaborate on a temporary public artwork that will become part of Taxingeplan, where the camp takes place. The camp ends with a vernissage and celebration, where we showcase what we’ve created together!

Dates: June 15–18
Time: 1–4 PM
Age: 15–19
Cost: Free (materials and snacks included)
Location: Tensta konsthall, Taxingegränd 10

With support from Familjebostäder, Svenska bostäder, Stadsholmen och Stockholmshem.
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Welcome to a Gardening Camp for Children and Families!

Join us for a hands-on gardening camp at Tensta konsthall’s allotment on Järvafältet. Together, we’ll learn about plants, fertilizers, soil, and how our planet works. Activities will take place both outside the art hall and at our allotment site on Järvafältet. Welcome to explore and learn together!

Dates: June 23–24
Time: 10.00–13.00
Age: 6–12 years (with family)
Cost: Free (materials and a light lunch included)
Meeting point: Tensta konsthall, Taxingegränd 10
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The Art Porch has been a tradition at Tensta konsthall’s Women’s Café for nearly ten years, when activities move out onto Tensta konsthall’s cozy porch and crafts and coffee take center stage. All materials are laid out, and everyone learns from one another. Try your hand at embroidery, knitting, or sewing. There are sewing machines available to use and materials to experiment with. All ages are welcome, and no prior experience is required. All languages are welcome!

Location: Tensta konsthall, Taxingegränd 10.
Drop-in, free
Contact: muna@tenstakonsthall.se or asha@tenstakonsthall.se
Times: Tuesdays-Thursdays June 8—26 and August 3—14.
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Are you a school librarian, teacher, special education teacher, cultural liaison, or principal? This evening is for you—sign up for this fall’s teachers’ evening today! Sparkling wine and snacks will be served.

The exhibition Remnants takes its cue from a historic encounter: the year is 1969, when jazz trumpeter Don Cherry met bassist Johnny Dyani in Sweden. Their musical collaboration—marked by improvisation, contemporary politics, and artistic freedom—serves as a gateway to exploring larger narratives of resistance, solidarity, and Black life in motion. Visitors encounter an evocative mix of painting, photography, music, and installations.

Through the exhibition Remnants, we explore questions such as how art, music, and imagery can open up conversations about history, identity, and contemporary issues in the classroom?

16:30 The evening begins with drinks and snacks.
17:00 Guided tour of Remnants.
17:30 Information about school programs and a chance to try our tactile tour.

Welcome! /Anna-Stina and Gazelle

Registration: anna-stina@tenstakonsthall.se by September 13.
Free of charge.

Image: Eagle-Eye and Don Cherry during SVT filming, Tågarp, 1971. © Estate of Moki Cherry / Cherry Archives.
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Always on

About Studio Funk
Studio Funk is a participant-led arts initiative that was launched in 2024 with support from the General Inheritance Fund. The initiative is aimed at – and created in collaboration with – young people with cognitive and physical disabilities. Through Studio Funk, we aim to open up contemporary art and make it accessible to more people. We work with artistic expression in both practical and theoretical ways, creating space for participants to experience, explore and influence art on their own terms.

A central part of our work is to highlight and explore issues relating to diversity, power, inclusion, ethnicity and challenging norms within the arts sector, and our ambition is to become a role model in the art world when it comes to accessibility and representation. Through our work with Studio Funk, we have established contact with network organisations and initiatives that work with our target group and its areas of interest. These include NUK: The Network for Universal Culture, the Independent Living Institute, Disabled Refugees Welcome, Farsta; 4inclusion, Kista; Konstskolan Linnea; Franstorps verkstäder, Sundbyberg.

Studio Funk—Contemporary Art for All
Allmänna Arvsfonden 2-year project
Period: September 2024—September 2026
Where? At Tensta konsthall and online

What is Studio Funk?
Studio Funk is a project aiming to create art activities for young people with various disabilities in the Järva area. We will have both a physical studio and digital studio where young people can participate in art and cultural activities.

Target Group
The project is for young people interested in:
Art
Social issues
Creative activities

How Do We Work?
A coordinator from the target group leads the project.
We collaborate with organizations working in art and culture.

What Do Participants Do?
Plan, take part in, and produce programs, workshops, studio visits, and audio guides for Studio Funk.
Help to improve accessibility, both at Tensta konsthall and online.

Earlier activities, Studio Funk:
Bli konstproducent - Höstkurs 2025
Franstorps Verkstäder gästar Studio Funk
VIP-visning av utställningen Fred med jorden
Från rock till oljud
Teckning med Sara Bayrami
Flytande tusch
Konstvisning med Studio Funk
Worskhop med Shamiram Adam

Contact Us
Inquiries: Anna-Stina Ulfström, curator.
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Tuesdays and Thursdays, women from the Järva area meet at Tensta konsthall to work with different kinds of crafts. Through joint handiwork, a safe space is made possible where conversation and exchange of experience is at the center. The craftsmanship skills that women in the group already have is amplified up and reinforced by teachers from Hemslöjden and by the other participants. Participants also meet visiting artists and make monthly excursions to Stockholm’s various craft sites, museums, and organizations. Women’s Café is a intimate venue free of constraints, costs, and commercial interests. Muna Alyaqoobi and Asha Mohamed lead the Women's Café.
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Fridays and Sundays we welcome participants to our Language Café, open for those who want to practice their basics in Swedish and Arabic, as well as get to make new friends and share experiences and thoughts. The Language Café particularily welcomes those who, for some reason, stand outside the Swedish educational system. During the meetings, we practice grammar, socialize, read simple books and excersise conversation. We are continuously looking for new volunteers.

Are you interested in joining in?
Contact Fahyma Alnablsi: fahyma@tenstakonsthall.se

During the warm months, the Language Café moves out to our allotment, our outdoor classroom. The Language Café is a part of The Silent University, an autonomous educational platform for asylum seekers, refugees and paperless people initiated by the artist Ahmet Ögüt (www.thesilentuniversity.org)
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Tensta’s Magic Wormholes is a digital artwork in augmented reality (AR)
This work is visible in the asphalt just outside Tensta konsthall on Taxingeplan. When you download the free app Tensta’s Magic Wormholes and point your phone at the sprayed patterns, a virtual world filled with memories and stories from around the globe open up on the screen. The patterns, suggested by Tensta residents in collaboration with Women’s Café at Tensta konsthall, reflect everything from the European history of the tulip with its Turkish roots to designs inspired by the underground church of Lalibela in Ethiopia.

Bella Rune (born 1971) lives and works in Stockholm. She was educated at Chelsea College of Arts in London and Beckmans School of Design in Stockholm. Rune primarily works with sculpture, experimenting with various materials and techniques, often incorporating performative elements. The app is produces together with Red Banners.
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Tensta Konsthall offers guided tours, workshops, the Creative School program, and educational resources for schools.

Tactile tour
A tactile mobile tour is an interactive tour directly linked to the exhibition and inspired by the artworks. Together, we explore different materials, expressions, and methods. Tactile mobile tours can be booked for all ages and last approximately 45 minutes.
Suitable for customized school visits.
Free for middle school classes in Järva.Others: 900 SEK.
Can be booked Tuesday–Friday from February 17 to May 3, 2026.

Guided Tour
Book a guided tour of the current exhibition. A tour is around 40 min. Free for schools in Järva och SFI.
Other schools and art schools: 700 kr

Creative school
From Renaissance painters' apprentices, artist couples such as Carl and Karin Larsson and Andy Warhol with his The Factory in New York where people created together around the clock. In the workshop, students get to try collaborating on a theme and work in pairs to create a joint painting on the same canvas. The workshop is led by an art educator and artist who gives instructions and talks about collective creation throughout history. It will be an exercise in collaboration, communicating about abstract things and not least developing the ability to use the hands, brain and heart in sync.

Cost: 5,000 SEK/occasion and class.
Materials included.

NOTE! The school takes the cost from earmarked funds for Creative School. Ask your principal!

Creative School: Clay Sculpture—Nature Creatures, New Species, and Contemporary Mythology
For middle and high school students, takes about 90–120 minutes.

We work with clay sculpture. What could a nature creature look like today, with inspiration from mythology, sci-fi, and folk beliefs? The forest has always been a place for fairy tales and mystery. Man's close contact with nature and the need to explain the world through it have given rise to stories that have lived on through folk beliefs and forest creatures such as fairies, and trolls. We learn about folk beliefs, myths, what nature stood for historically, and how we can view it today. What would today's nature creature look like in light of climate change, human development, future monoculture, invasive species, and endangered flora? We work with clay. At Tensta konsthall.

Cost: 8,000 SEK/ event and class. NOTE! The cost is taken by the school from earmarked funds for Creative School. Ask your principal!

For questions and bookings, contact anna-stina@tenstakonsthall.se
For questions and bookings, contact anna-stina@tenstakonsthall.se (Anna-Stina Ulfström, mediator).
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